The retail landscape is in a difficult place at the moment. Between economic stressors like high inflation rates, talent shortages and industry changes such as rapidly evolving customer expectations and surging demands, many retailers are scrambling to find a foothold in these uncertain times. They need to make every resource count. Merchandising teams are critical…
Roland Gossage
The e-commerce user experience (UX) is more important than ever for retailers. Consumers are looking for convenient, personalized shopping experiences, from online to in-store and everything in between. While there has been significant progress in improving e-commerce UX in recent years, advancements focused on efficiency have had the most impact. As we begin 2023, three…
If you’ve been tracking e-commerce news, you would be aware of the media claiming that the retail apocalypse is here. According to the latest Coresight Research Report (June 28, 2019), U.S. retailers have announced 7,037 store closures as compared to 5,864 closures in 2018. However, there are a few interesting trends that indicate digital commerce…
While many retailers have yet to come to a consensus on what the future of grocery will look like, they can agree that great disruption is already occurring in the category, and innovation will be driven by consumer behavior and desires. The proliferation of ways and places to shop means online grocers must also compete…
In today’s time-starved world, retailers and brands are just one of the many industries competing for consumers’ attention on a daily basis. And as more and more shoppers experience increased time constraints throughout their day, the ways they search for items they need to buy online in that instant will become increasingly specific, in much…
For all the emphasis the e-commerce industry places on big data, the benefits of data are proportional to its quality. Think of it this way: big data is crude oil and rich data is refined fuel. Now let’s apply it to product data: when it’s unstructured, it’s useless, but once it’s organized and enriched, it…
